Ricardo Autobahn’s The Golden Age of Video is amazing. He took clips from various movies (and a few TV shows) and mashed them into a song, but gave it a beat and lyrics that border on actually making sense, so that what you end up with is a video that could fool you into thinking it was music.
Sour shot the music video for their song Hibi no Neiro using just webcams and an amazing amount of coordination and planning, giving the effect of choreography across time and space.
It’s a little hard to describe, so watch and be inspired:
The radio is dead, and Jelli is here to replace it.
Ok, so maybe that’s a bit extreme, but the concept behind Jelli is a fascinating one, and does have the potential to change radio as we know it.
Essentially, Jelly is a single radio station that’s 100% listener controlled. Users can nominate songs, vote for songs they like, and bomb the ones they don’t, and the song with the most votes at the end of the currently playing track gets the next spot in line. The more you listen, the more power you gain, though even first timers have the ability to push a song over the edge.
The result is a mix of music that will surprise and delight, with an ever changing flow of community taste and creative control.
Just don’t expect to hear the Billboard Top 40 playing on repeat any time soon.
Archrival is a ’sweet youth brand marketing agency’ with two interns named Dan Sheppard and Anthony Galvan. The pair decided that their agency didn’t know enough about them, so they created a damn funny music video to share a few ‘Personal Things’:
What does the collective voice of 2,088 people singing Bicycle Built for Two into Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system sound like?
Probably a little something like this: